Author: Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church (Chicago : Polish Catholic)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Diamond Jubilee, 1882-1957, Immaculate Conception B.V.M. Parish
Author: Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church (Chicago : Polish Catholic)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Making a New Deal
Author: Lizabeth CohenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107431794
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
Examines how ordinary factory workers became unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s.
Chicago
Author: Dominic A. PacygaPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226644324
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Chicago has been called by many names. Nelson Algren declared it a “City on the Make.” Carl Sandburg dubbed it the “City of Big Shoulders.” Upton Sinclair christened it “The Jungle,” while New Yorkers, naturally, pronounced it “the Second City.” At last there is a book for all of us, whatever we choose to call Chicago. In this magisterial biography, historian Dominic Pacyga traces the storied past of his hometown, from the explorations of Joliet and Marquette in 1673 to the new wave of urban pioneers today. The city’s great industrialists, reformers, and politicians—and, indeed, the many not-so-great and downright notorious—animate this book, from Al Capone and Jane Addams to Mayor Richard J. Daley and President Barack Obama. But what distinguishes this book from the many others on the subject is its author’s uncommon ability to illuminate the lives of Chicago’s ordinary people. Raised on the city’s South Side and employed for a time in the stockyards, Pacyga gives voice to the city’s steelyard workers and kill floor operators, and maps the neighborhoods distinguished not by Louis Sullivan masterworks, but by bungalows and corner taverns. Filled with the city’s one-of-a-kind characters and all of its defining moments, Chicago: A Biography is as big and boisterous as its namesake—and as ambitious as the men and women who built it.
American Warsaw
Author: Dominic A. PacygaPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022681534X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Pacyga chronicles more than a century of immigration, and later emigration back to Poland, showing how the community has continually redefined what it means to be Polish in Chicago.
Ethnicity and Sport in North American History and Culture
Author: George EisenPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313064768
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The editors use the unique lens of the history of sports to examine ethnic experiences in North America since 1840. Comprised of 12 original essays and an Introduction, it chronicles sport as a social institution through which various ethnic and racial groups attempted to find the way to social and psychological acceptance and cultural integration. Included are chapters on Native Americans, Irish-Americans, German-Americans, Canadians, African-Americans, Italian-Americans, Hispanics, and several more, showing how their sports participation also provided these communities with some measure of social mobility, self-esteem, and a shared pride.
As God Shall Ordain
Author: Anne Marie KnawaPublisher:
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Category : Poles
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
Book Description
Dotyczy polskiego Kościoła katolickiego w USA.
Popular Culture and Political Change in Modern America
Author: Ronald EdsforthPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 143840185X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This book is a collection of essays dealing with the ways in which specific popular entertainment media, mass consumer products, and popular movements affect politics and political culture in the United States. It seeks to present a range of possibilities that reflect the dimensions of the current debate and practice in the field. Some of the contributions to this volume place popular culture media such as films, music, and books in a broad social context, and several articles deal with the historical roots of twentieth-century American popular culture. Popular culture is treated as categorically neither good nor bad, in either political or aesthetic terms. Instead, the essays reflect the editors' convictions that popular culture is simply too important to be ignored by those academics who treat politics and its history seriously. The collection also shows that studying popular or mass culture in a historical way illuminates a variety of possible relationships between popular culture and politics.
Writings on American History
Author: Library of Congress Catalog
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Subject
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.
Polish American History and Culture
Author: Joseph W. ZurawskiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Polish Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description